Public bug reported: On a fresh install of Xubuntu 18.04, xfce4-battery-plugin is using is using most of a CPU, is currently the top memory consumer on the machine, and is driving the temperature up. Killing the process causes it to restart, and this behavior returns within a day or so.
This appears to be the same problem I encountered in #1683897 but that was in a non-LTS version and the problem was not addressed before it went unsupported. kjotte@agamemnon:~$ top -b top - 14:09:13 up 7 days, 4:52, 1 user, load average: 0.95, 0.94, 0.94 Tasks: 264 total, 2 running, 193 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie %Cpu(s): 10.8 us, 0.2 sy, 0.0 ni, 88.9 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st KiB Mem : 32816556 total, 26072160 free, 2086120 used, 4658276 buff/cache KiB Swap: 2097148 total, 2097148 free, 0 used. 30311676 avail Mem PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 22296 kjotte 20 0 932444 593704 20004 R 82.5 1.8 2323:27 panel-20-batter ... kjotte@agamemnon:~$ sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Package id 0: +71.0°C (high = +84.0°C, crit = +100.0°C) ... (Idle temp on this machine is around 54 C) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: xfce4-battery-plugin 1.1.0-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-24.26-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Mon Jul 9 14:03:32 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-11 (27 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426) SourcePackage: xfce4-battery-plugin UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: xfce4-battery-plugin (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780837 Title: xfce4-battery-plugin using high cpu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-battery-plugin/+bug/1780837/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs